Thanks to friend Dawn up in Seattle for sending along the link to one of the more unusual casemods I’ve seen: the Aqua Tank.
I’d get into casemodding, but it requires some things I lack, such as money and a certain facility with tools.
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For those who look for hidden imagery in everyday things
I agree with Speckz.com: “I don’t know where people come up with this…”
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Progress Quest realms!
At some point the people behind Progress Quest, the greatest computer game of all time, decided to split the multiplayer gaming into three realms. So now I feel somewhat obligated to have characters on each of those realms. Now when you check the stats for GreyDuck you get the rankings for any realms that my character is in. I’ve got a pretty good ranking in Knoram, the original realm…
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You have 30 seconds to use the bathroom
It isn’t exactly breaking news, but Wendi forwarded to me this 2600 article about how big media corporations view the practice of skipping commercials.
What I especially love is the notion that I have a “contract with the network” when I watch television programming. Er, you said what? I don’t remember signing any contract, pal. I’m free to skip over your stupid commercials any time I want. Seriously.
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It’s a Snap!
In an ongoing effort to improve network storage, we ordered a Quantum Snap! Server 4100. It arrived this morning, so today’s task is to install and configure the machine. Over the next couple of days I’ll see about testing a few configuration arrangements with an eye toward switching everyone over by month’s end.
One of the challenges I’m facing is that this is essentially just a Linux box with a giant RAID array. All of the Netware and Windows connectivity is purely emulated, so I must deal with a variety of limitations on how smoothly I can integrate this machine into the rest of the network. For instance, how hard is it going to be to do fine-tuned directory-level security? It may not be possible at all, which means I’ll have to completely re-think how we’re going to use this machine.
Fun, what? Oh, and in keeping with the Tenchi-based naming scheme, the Quantum is now known as Tokimi. (I already have a Washuu and a Tsunami.)
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I have to push the pram a lot…
Thanks to Megan Denny here at the office for forwarding the link to the Lego Holy Grail movie.